Ensuring an educated workforce is the big issue for Minnesota

Date Published: 07/30/2008

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New York Times columnist David Brooks writes about a topic very close to our Smart Investment hearts. One reason the U.S. gained so much ground as a world economic power in the last century, he says, was because of emphasis on education that increased high school graduation rates and higher ed attainment.

We're now threatened, he argues, because America's educational progress slowed around 1970, and then stagnated between 1975 and 1990.